Warwick Police join ranks in Kid, Cops & Classroom campaign

Posted 7/27/17

State, local and federal law enforcement agencies across the state are again joining forces to collect donations of new backpacks and school supplies to help school children in Rhode Island through the Kids, Cops, and Classrooms project. While the

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Warwick Police join ranks in Kid, Cops & Classroom campaign

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State, local and federal law enforcement agencies across the state are again joining forces to collect donations of new backpacks and school supplies to help school children in Rhode Island through the Kids, Cops, and Classrooms project.

While the program largely supports children in Providence, Warwick has traditionally backed the program and has stepped up its efforts to assist this year. Captain Joseph Hopkins of the Community Service Division said Tuesday, fliers promoting the campaign have been posted on the Warwick Police Facebook page and donations have been made.

Donations are being accepted at Warwick Police headquarters and at state police barracks, local police departments and other offices across the state. These will be distributed to local agencies that work with disadvantaged families throughout the state. The goal of Kids, Cops, and Classrooms is to help ease the financial burden many families face when it comes to providing their children with the school supplies they need, while also teaching children that law enforcement officers are their friends and are in their communities to help. "With communities facing increasingly tighter budgets, families are being asked to provide more school supplies for their children and their classrooms than ever before, which poses a tremendous financial burden on families struggling just to make ends meet," said Rhode Island State Police Major Christopher Dicomitis, who's leading this year's Kids, Cops and Classrooms campaign. "We hope the backpacks and supplies we collect through this program will help ease some of this burden for many of these families, while providing children with the school supplies they need to succeed." Supplies being sought through the Kids, Cops, and Classrooms campaign include: Backpacks - small, medium and large, #2 pencils, pens, pencil boxes, boxes of crayons, spiral notebooks, 3-Ring binders (1, 1, 2 inches), subject dividers, book covers, index cards, pencil sharpeners, assignment book/weekly planners, rulers (marked in inches and centimeters), USB flash drives, facial tissues, boxes of washable markers, highlighters, large pink erasers, glue sticks, bottles of glue (Elmer's type) and safety scissors.

Donations can be brought to any State Police barracks or local police department. They will be given to the following agencies for distribution to families: Crossroads Rhode Island; Family Service of Rhode Island; Project Night Vision; Children's Friend; the Hispanic Ministerial Association of Rhode Island; Multi-Service Center for All; African Alliance; Mount Hope Neighborhood Association; Chad Brown Alumni Association; and the Center for Southeast Asians.

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